Photos: Items found with the baby bodies

Shocking discovery

Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times

Building manager Gloria Gomez, left, and tenant Yiming Xing were checking the contents of three trunks in the storage room of a MacArthur Park apartment building when they found the remains of two infants. Behind them is the basement where the remains were found. See full story

Building manager Gloria Gomez, left, and tenant Yiming Xing were checking the contents of three trunks in the storage room of a MacArthur Park apartment building when they found the remains of two infants. Behind them is the basement where the remains were found. See full story (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

A page of the Sept. 17, 1937, edition of the Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express was used as wrapping paper for crockery discovered along with the skeletal remains of two babies in a steamer trunk stored in the basement of a building in the 800 block of Lake Street. See full story

A page of the Sept. 17, 1937, edition of the Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express was used as wrapping paper for crockery discovered along with the skeletal remains of two babies in a steamer trunk stored in the basement of a building in the 800 block of Lake Street. See full story (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)